This film is set in an affluent Long Island neighborhood, the home of boyhood chums Patrick McGaw, Steve Partavecchio, and Joseph Lindsay. With too much time on their hands, the kids turn to crime for "kicks." Events snowball into… MoreThis film is set in an affluent Long Island neighborhood, the home of boyhood chums Patrick McGaw, Steve Partavecchio, and Joseph Lindsay. With too much time on their hands, the kids turn to crime for "kicks." Events snowball into a climactic life-or-death drug deal, which threatens to end in disaster.

In the final analysis, Amongst Friends works not because it's an expose of upscale, suburban violence and drug use, but because it takes the time to develop its characters so that the events which swirl around them involve us.